Producers and editors working in social media, multimedia and audience roles are exposed to trauma in unique, generally unacknowledged ways. Join this essential conversation to learn how to build newsroom-wide resilience and sustainability to protect vulnerable staff.
This session is designed for:
- Audience team members and managers will learn the unique ways in which their jobs are vulnerable to trauma and how to counter it.
- Journalists who encounter traumatic stories and imagery in a repeated manner will learn warning signs as well as coping skills.
- This session will be useful to anyone who has encountered trauma-related stress on the job – or who works with someone who does – and wants to better understand how to help themselves and each other.
Speakers
Anne Godlasky
President, National Press Foundation
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Felecia Wellington Radel
Senior Editor, USA Today
Gretchen Schmelzer
Author, Journey Through Trauma,
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